Angolan Proverb Quotes

But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.

Force does not heal old wounds; it opens new ones.

For every whack I've given, I've gotten four or five.

You kick a dog long enough, that dog is going to bite you or die.

The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it's also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

I have experienced within my own lifetime the attack of my winter camp and the killing of the women and children. It left me even angrier than I was - and I was never too calm to begin with.

Those to whom evil is done do evil in return.

All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.

There are great and terrible consequences to any act of violence, and they reverberate beyond the act itself.

When people repeatedly hit me, I would feel a sense of unfairness.

You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies. One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes.

You can't stamp on people and not get hurt in return.

I realized that anyone who dared to hurt me would suffer his full wrath, and Walt wasn’t going to hold him back.

Lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten.

Revenge proves its own executioner.

These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people - things that are even worse than cutting yourself shaving. And these are not the sorts of things you feel the need to experience before you write about them.

Every shot that kills ricochets.

When we have been badly injured and clearly wronged, we make an instant caricature of the person who did it to us. We define him totally by the one wrong he did.

When something horrible is done to you, the natural impulse is to strike back.